Post your comment below if you were you lucky enough to see it? And if you were lucky enough to get a photo I would love to see it.

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Thanks to Belinda Hansen who posted on the ABC Open facebook account and pointed me to Tony Delroy's science segment with Dr Karl. You can listen to the audio here from a few callers a up about the flaming ball in the sky. It comes in about 19 minutes.

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Belinda from South LA, California

I saw one of these flying in the city of Walnut, California during work around 12 midnight. Same description and all!

Korrina

last nite we saw a fire ball the 9th of august ive never seen anything like it befor got photo of it on my phone

Renan Jacopetti

We had something that has fallen from the sky last night in my street in Wagga Wagga NSW it hit the ground and made a long fire line on the street stoping at the end of the street and kept on fire fora long time. We called the fire fighters and they came to put it out as soon as they put water bigger item the fire went very hight up before going off we still have some pieces in the street looked like there was some metal with it.

Jae Woodward

Hey guys i saw it while driving south through Woodburn n Broadwater.was actually told it was an old Soviet space station reentering our orbit ...whatever it was it grabbed my attention big time .

Emma

I saw it on the central coast near the entrance!!!!

Robin Burren

I was driving west on Guineas Ck Rd near the Pines shopping centre at Elanora, Gold Coast at about 6pm and saw it go straight down behind the hill. It appeared a bit greenish to me, although there was light cloud. Much bigger than a shooting star.

Brandon

Yeah I saw it. Also on the Gold Coast, was the largest 'falling star' I've seen!

neon blade

Saw it near Bangalow NSW, around 18:05

Alice

I saw in on my way home from Brisbane!

Miranda

My husband saw it at Mutdapilly Qld which is southwest of Brisbane. He commented when he got home about how bright it was.

Julia Willson

I saw it too!!! Big, blue and beautiful! Sighted it in Wollongong NSW around 6pm, for roughly 2 seconds! SPECTACULAR! :)

Wiriya Sati

I saw it from the breakwall in Port Macquarie and had that moment of "woah" but dismissed it as fireworks. I was waiting for the crack or bang... I figured it must have been too far away and didn't think much more of it as I was on the phone to our colleague Tim at the time.